I certainly am no fan of Pitino's recruiting, but I don't think he "lost" Roddy, Wahl, or Terry. It didn't take long to realize he probably should have made Terry a priority given where he quickly found himself in guard recruiting and especially given where he ended up even if he wasn't necessarily a fit for how Pitino wanted to play. On the issue of in state recruiting, it simply has to get better...unless out of state recruiting takes a major leap forward or Pitino starts developing kids outside the top 100 in to difference makers like Wisconsin has done or attract the right transfers like Iowa State has done. The clearest path to improvement is recruiting his own state better. That means occasionally beating out a blue blood for a Hurt or a Nnaji and consistently beating out the Baylor's, Marquette's, and Xavier's of the world for the next tier. You do that and that's a solid talent base to sustainable success where you can maybe start batting close to .500 on the elite kids once you've had a couple nice NCAA runs and put a Minnesota kid or two in to the NBA. Like I said, there's other ways to build a winner, but time is running out. We're going in to year 7 and I don't buy any excuses for the roster to be what it appears to be on paper with all the talent that has been available in state over the past few classes.
